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Should I report this or not?

This past Thursday, I was involved in a slight fender bender that was not my fault.

I was heading into downtown Seattle. I was heading down on the 520 which runs into Seattle, and then turned onto I5 which runs north and south through Seattle, and up to Vancouver. As I was on the I5, it turned into a parking lot. That’s one thing about Seattle that annoys me, it’s the traffic. Of course, compared to other large cities it isn’t too bad but it is worse than Winnipeg.

Anyhow, I’m sitting in traffic, not really going anywhere except every 30 seconds when I would crawl up a few feet. But then I noticed something – the car in front of me started rolling towards me a bit. Eventually, he stopped and scooted forward. Weird, I thought. What’s up with that?

Then, a couple of minutes later, I was behind this car still, waiting to get the 1 mile to my turnoff so I could get out of this traffic jam. The car was about 8 – 10 feet in front of me but I wasn’t moving. I was standing absolutely still and that’s when it happened; the car started rolling towards me! Slowly! Deliberately!

I was looking at it thinking “Is that car rolling towards me?” I squinted. “Sh*t! It is rolling towards me!” Just then I heard a clunk. He rolled into me! And I was standing completely still! I was like “WTF?”

I quickly got out a piece of paper and a pen and wrote down his license plate, car make and model, color, a description of the driver and noted the time that it occurred. I didn’t have time to get out of the car because we were in the traffic jam and there was no place to pull over. This guy then tried to change lanes to get away from me… but I caught up to him eventually and gave him the evil eye.

I was later able to examine my vehicle for any damage and there is none, so at this point I have not yet reported it. Should I do it? Or not?